On Target

1 October 1976. Thought for the Week: "Democracy
is not all clear gain. For one thing, its methods of reaching decisions
by voting creates the general impression that the majority is right.
From a ladies' sewing circle to the assembly of the League of Nations
we count heads when we wish a matter settled. The result is that we
modern democrats, who would scorn to truckle to an autocrat, truckle
to the majority with all the obsequiousness of a courtier before his
sovereign. Once the fashions were set by a monarch - the king could
do no wrong. If he wore a beard, beards were fashionable; if he wore
a ruff to cover a scar, ruffs were the order of the day. Democracy,
however, which has largely abolished this mimicry of kings, has for
many folk only sustained mimicry of the mob. We do not go through the
outward ritual of kneeling to their Majesties, but in fact we continually
bow before two great sovereigns of the democratic state - The General
Average and the Majority Vote."
Harry Emerson Fosdick in "Twelve Tests of Character" (1923)

THE MURDERING OF RHODESIA

By Eric D. Butler
Approximately five months ago, Dr. Henry Kissinger, with the backing
of President Ford, outlined in the Zambian capital, Lusaka, a programme
for crushing Rhodesia. Last Friday, September 24th, Prime Minister Ian
Smith of Rhodesia reluctantly confessed that the Kissinger policy was
being accepted.

In a fine dialectical display, Kissinger said
in his Lusaka declaration of war, that he was pledging support to the
Marxist regime of Mozambique as part of his programme to preserve "world
peace". He went on to threaten that the U.S. would "approach other industrial
nations to ensure the strictest and broadest international compliance
with sanctions" imposed against Rhodesia by the United Nations. Kissinger
has never at any time suggested economic sanctions to help end minority
control of the Soviet Union and its satellites, or of Red China. Even
Idi Amin' s Uganda is regarded more kindly than the Rhodesia, which
has threatened no one.

Events concerning Rhodesia and South Africa
confirm the Malcolm Muggeridge and Solzhenitsyn view that the West is
suffering from a death wish. But this death wish has been deliberately
created by the agents of subversion the most dangerous being, as Muggeridge
has said, those who never cease to moralise about their "progressive
liberalism". The media is always open to enable these "credulous buffoons",
to quote Muggeridge again, to demonstrate their capacity to be "taken
in by grotesquely obvious deceptions", and to "pass on from one to another,
like a torch held upside down, the same death wish..."

But behind the sick liberals are the real traitors
of Civilisation, the men who have financed the Western economic blood
transfusions without which the advance of International Communism could
never have taken place. The revolting Henry Kissinger, who, in his guttural
monotone, has proclaimed a number of major retreats for the West, is
currently the principal agent of these traitors. The Rhodesian retreat
was the result of what has been described as Kissinger' a "meat axe
diplomacy". Having served notice on the Rhodesians, he then made it
clear to South African Prime Minister Vorster that he had to threaten
to use the axe on Ian Smith - or else!

If John Vorster believes that he is buying time
for South Africa by agreeing to sacrifice Rhodesia, then he has learned
nothing from the lessons of history. The bell is already tolling for
South Africa.

It was on September 14th, in his meeting with
Prime Minister Smith in Pretoria, that John Vorster made his fateful
statement that South African aid for Rhodesia was finished unless Ian
Smith agreed to the Kissinger proposals. When Kissinger met with the
Rhodesian leader he was able to produce an intelligence dossier purporting
to show that the Soviet and Cubans had plans for intensifying the military
pressure on Rhodesia. And Kissinger made the point once again that under
no circumstances would the U.S. assist the Rhodesians if they decided
to fight on.

In the face of what can only be described as
treasonable blackmail, the Rhodesian Front Party obviously felt that
there was no real alternative but to accept the Kissinger plan for "majority
rule" in two years. And so on Friday, September 24th, Prime Minister
Ian Smith had to make what must have been the most difficult address
in his whole career. But he left no doubt about what had happened. He
said: "The proposals which were put to us do not represent what in
our view would have been the best solution for the Rhodesian problem.
Regretfully, however, we were not able to make our views prevail....
The American and British governments, together with major Western powers,
have made up their minds as to the kind of solution they wish to see
in Rhodesia, and they are determined to bring it about."

Following the "agreement" for Rhodesia's future,
there was another outburst of the same type of euphoria, which swept
the world when Kissinger announced his "peace" plan for Vietnam. With
his eye on the polls, President Ford expressed his pleasure with Dr.
Kissinger' s efforts. Like the gadarine swine rushing towards disaster,
the politicians of all labels joined in the praise for the "great international
diplomat", Dr. Kissinger. Prime Minister Fraser dutifully chimed in
and once again stressed his support for "majority rule". I do not anticipate
that Mr. Fraser and his colleagues will accept any responsibility for
the inevitable disastrous results of the criminally insane policy they
are supporting.

In his concluding statement to the Rhodesian
people, Prime Minister Smith said, "Now it is not the end. It is not
even the beginning of the end. It is perhaps the end of the beginning."
The Rhodesian leader could be right. The proposed "agreement" has yet
to be finalised. The Soviet-Cuban thrust will continue even if it is.
And once again the civilised world will see how it has been betrayed
by Henry Kissinger and his masters. The murder of Rhodesia might yet
awaken the West from its death wish. If this happens, Rhodesia will
not have sacrificed and died in vain.

BRIEF COMMENTS

Defence Minister Killen has a well-deserved reputation
for wit. We presume therefore that he was being unconsciously hilarious
when he wrote in the September issue of "The Australian Liberal"
that inflation will never be cured until it is regarded "with absolute
horror and utter hatred". With a fine theatrical flourish, Mr. Killen
writes "We must create a climate in which inflation is seen as one of
society' s great evils - as personally threatening as a killer at large".
When there is a killer at large, he is identified and apprehended by
the proper authorities. Mr. Killen would better serve the anti-inflation
cause if he would identify the cause and advocate policies for removing
it. This would mean, of course, challenging his own Government' s policies.

Following the attempted murder of Mrs. Brigette
McKenne, a leader of the Northern Ireland women's peace movement, another
peace leader, Miss Corrigan, 23, said, "We have to be prepared in the
next few months that women will become targets. I am prepared to die
for peace." It is to be hoped that this type of spirit will eventually
triumph against the revolutionaries and gunmen.

No one can deny that Prime Minister Fraser is
dogged. Once again he maintains that his budget strategy is working
and that there are "clear signs of recovery". He expressed his confidence
on September 24th in addressing the annual dinner of the South Australian
Institute of Director. He did admit, however, "in the early stages of
recovery the indicators are inevitably mixed". In his weekly electorate
radio broadcast on September 26th, Mr. Fraser said that his anti-inflation
strategy "aims at a gradual and sound recovery." Mr. B. Lawrence, executor
director of the Retail Traders Association of N.S.W., cannot detect
any "recovery". Mr. Lawrence says retail sales for July and August had
been most disappointing, and that the Budget had given no direct stimulation
to demand by increasing money in people's pockets.
Note: there is no problem about an adequate supply of goods, only a
shortage of purchasing power. The first anti-inflationary way to increase
purchasing power would be to slash Sales Tax. The Treasury "experts"
oppose this policy.

We wait with interest to hear the explanation
from the Whitlams of why the Swedes have, after 44 years of an expanding
Welfare State, voted the Socialists out. It appears that the young voters,
given the vote just in time for the elections, played a major part in
throwing the Socialists out. Clearly, even the well-conditioned Swedes
felt that enough was enough.

The state of the American finance economy is
a major issue in the American Presidential and Congressional elections.
Although the Ford Administration brought inflation down by creating
massive unemployment and large-scale business bankruptcies, now inflation
is rising again as an attempt is made to "get the economy moving". Are
you taking careful note, Mr. Phil Lynch? And what about Japan, where
the Japanese shipbuilding industry is being pressed to cut back its
present production by 35% over the next financial year? Further big
steel price increases are threatened.

A national commission of the Anglican Church
claimed last week that "lunatic fringe groups" are promoting hatred
against migrants. Reference is made to something called a "latent sense
of racism" in Australia. These "lunatic fringe groups" allegedly more
vocal in recent years, "were actively espousing a mono-culture and white
Australia." Do we understand that Australians no longer have the right
to advocate the type of Australian culture and society they prefer?